So, regarding my last notions about a certain bookseller…my losing intuition continues!

Today I took a shower. I put on makeup and I was rocking out to my music in the sun. Things were working. So when I happened to pass by the bookstore in question I stopped and walked in. There he was, sitting at the desk, about to look up at me when the phone rang. Catching my eye only as he picked the phone up, I waved and smiled and then placed myself a comfortable distance from the cash. I was going to bravely wait for him to finish his important business conversation. I was going to bravely station myself out of his eyeline, directly behind a convenient pole. As his conversation extended to embarrassing-for-me lengths, a co-worker came in and I asked the new guy my alibi. I realized that the bookseller would not speak to me today, and that my old textbooks, like me, were destined to have their potential wasted.

Eager now to leave my pathetic attempt behind, I smile and wave again to his blank, unresponsive business face and book it out of there. Of course, i’m not able to leave without first walking straight into a certain one-timer. “Hey”, “What up?” and I’m jumping out of there even faster now. I hit the sunshine again and walk home as quickly as I can. Try Try Again… right?